USB Drive Issue
Hello all! I have been using linux as my main OS for about 4 months now. I can finally install software, switch video to a projector, and my other basic tasks. Now that I can use mepis as it is, I want to be able to customize it to me. With that, I bring a usb drive issue to you. I know that mepis will scan for new hardware on boot and load the driver for it. So when my drive is plugged in before booting everything is fine. But when I plug it in after a boot, mepis is not always able to mount it. The icon will come up, but it will not mount. How do I fix this?
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Type of drive? Hard Drive or Flash?
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Flash drive. And its Mepis 3.4 if it makes a difference.
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Can you mount the drive in the terminal as root?
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Hmm...Im not sure of the command for that. In Kwikdisk its called sda and it doesnt show up in there when I cant mount it when i just plug it in.
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as root:
mount /dev/sda/ /mnt That should mount the files to the /mnt directory for more information: info mount |
I just got done trying that...no mounting yet :( And the info command didnt work, but man does. Im playing around with the mount command for the time being though.
When I put in: mount /dev/sda /mnt It mounted the drive as /mnt...but the files are read-only when I open them not as root. I did find out that that umount is the command for unmounting :) I love the commandline. Alas! This is progress :) |
Since you have read only you can change that by typing as root:
chmod 777 /mnt/* -R That will mean that everyone can do everything to the files. Give it a try. Also see man chmod Not sure if that will change anything on the memory stick though. I have suse and never need to mount a USB drive. Let me know what happens. |
Currently trying to get chmod to do what it should...this oddly reminds me of trying to program motorola microprocessors...
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